The Justice Department is assisting Hong Kong authorities in a money laundering investigation involving China’s state-owned oil company, according to federal court filings in Washington. In April, Hong Kong investigators requested the department’s help in freezing about $24 million that prosecutors say are the laundered profits of a fraud scheme aimed at China National Offshore Oil Corp. and its partners in a joint venture, Eni China BV and Chevron Corp.

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